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Thanks for sharing the link. Although I am looking forward that you would write here again someday.

Nice, we have a couple in common! The people who administrated the test for us were given our full results, and after we were all so curious, they gave us our top 10. If I wanted to make an appointment I might see my whole 32, but I think I might fixate on the lower themes.

Yay! Jeri-blogging is back! I read every word…didn’t glaze over the “techie” stuff. ;)

About a month or two ago, my department did StrengthsFinder as well. Here are my top 5: Harmony, Consistency, Connectedness, Intellection, Belief

Welcome back, Jeri!! Love the rundown.

That’s a lot of movies for a weekend! ;)

Here are a few of my thoughts/comments on some…

Black Swan: We rented it, Wendy saw it first, and forbade me from seeing it
Kings Speech: I confess that trailers seemed boring, so I put it off, but it was good. I do so admire Geoffrey Rush
Tangled: A Cosette Classic. Duh.
Unstoppable: Wow! Knowing your opinion of Denzel, that’s saying something.
Butch/Sundance: Ya…good, fun flick
Jerk: I can’t resist whenever I hear someone utter the phrase “All I need…” and is the only reason I have any sadness about not getting phone books anymore.
Enter the Dragon: Yes
Thor: Yes
X-Men FC: What? No…I liked it. Especially the friendship/tension between Charles and Eric.
Robin Hood: Did you ever see the BBC series? (3 seasons long) I really liked it.

I haven’t seen many movies. =/

Wow, the magnetic rack looks quite good
I’m considering acquiring one for my kitchen
thanks

The Coen brothers are truly the best.The young girl seeking revenge, her character, her choice of Rooster as the hunter.

Have a great time!

I don’t believe you do.

yes, one you should update more often. :)

Who is this and how did you get in my RSS feed?

I feel the same way sometimes.

Hahaha! Yeah, burning things down never works.

There’s always money in the banana stand!

r u interested in converting this inception dvd movie to video files?

I loved it too. It was really sad in a lot of parts, but it’s an amazing look at a tremendous volume of work from this amazing duo. I loved hearing their stories of Mary Poppins and working with Walt. This doc along with Waking Sleeping Beauty and Walt and El Grupo make a great little trilogy of Disney History.

I love this movie! There is a sequel, Except for Me and Thee … but I think it is sometimes listed under Friendly Persuasion also.

I totally cried at the end of both this one and Shrek The Final Chapter!

That was such a good movie. My son saw it at age seven and since then everything has hidden secret messages ;0)

I very much enjoyed reading your blog and learned a lot from it thank you for the effort you put into it.

I’m thinking of checking out this trail tomorrow. Thanks for the info, keep it up!

whew, i am tired just reading all you are doing and accomplishing!

Sorry this one turned out to be a disappointment – I’ll take the blame since I recommended it!

It’s been a few years since I caught this on TV so I don’t remember the details and couldn’t tell you what actually happens in the second half, so I can neither agree nor disagree with the points you raise!

Sweet!

Yes, a new blog participant! Hey, I emailed IT this morning with a request for a Google Group. We’ll see how it goes.

I made your blog! The funny thing about this movie for me is that I keep remembering the title to be The Magician’s Assistant.

I actually really like the Tesla coils synthesized music scene, cheesy but fun :)

I’m curious what the other two halves are and why you only saw halves!

I enjoyed Persona overall, though some of the opening scenes were over my head. A guy in my office and I joke around constantly about this movie now. With all of our jokes, I think we could make a pretty awesome Regstrarian parody ourselves.

That video was great. For a second, I thought I was more attuned to the Swedish language after watching so many Swedish movies! Too bad. I love that “Yes. All mankind feels my presence eventually” translates, “Yeyah, all den peepuls been feelin me presenskah zooner o lateskah"!

Loved the use of closeups where the characters are staring toward the camera. There was far too much happiness though.

I’ve seen one and two halves of Bergman films but I did like the one I made it through (Persona), if for predictable reasons.

Unfortunately it’s hard for me to take his movies as seriously as they (seem to) ask to be taken, because they always remind me of this parody of his style called De Duva (The Dove):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2QmLWWxq4

The best part for me is the faux-Swedish narration and dialogue.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot about Mickey Rourke, because he’s IN the movie, but all he does is sit in a chair and chat! And you are totally right about Stallone’s facial hair. He’s definitely making himself look more and more terrible. It just made me laugh that he seemed to use the most closeups on himself and Rourke, of all people.

Stallone’s face is getting so weird. I think he’s had almost as much plastic surgery as Mickey Rourke (wasn’t he supposed to be in this movie too, by the way?)

Specifically, Stallone’s goatee reminds me of the way Michael Jackson’s facial hair looked in the last few years of his life – quite magic marker-esque.

I’m not making fun, though…I really did think it’s neat to use Joy as an action verb! Besides, theoretically, I make mistakes once in a while too. ;)

And I think it would have been so money if Ric had a cigar in his mouth in the pic, like Clint Eastwood.

Hahaha. And that is evidence that I don’t proofread my posts. I know, it’s very non-English major of me to do, but oh well! I think Ric fits in well as a cowboy, don’t you? Erika’s not as convincing as a cowboy with bangs.

Hmmm…it’s interesting trying to think of “Joy” as an action verb. “I’m going to Joy off some calories.” ;)

Also, Ric looks kinda different in that second photo.

First of all, let me agree wholeheartedly with Andrew about the free resource you are providing!

The first time I saw ScoPiVeWo I laughed from start to finish but the second time I mostly chuckled occasionally, perhaps because there were only a half dozen people in the theater who were very sedate. I also enjoy Wright’s fast-moving humor (it reminds me of Amelie in tone) and use of swish pans and smash cuts for punchlines. This light hearted rhythm sucked me in so much that I was totally surprised (even on second viewing) when the first Evil Ex interrupts the proceedings.

One second viewing I felt things dragging after (or during?) the third fight but the movie itself seems to sense this and the fourth fight commences nice and suddenly, jumpstarting the movie with the involvement of a formerly passive character. But, despite a couple great lines like “bifurious” from Ann/Bland/Plant, my favorite Ex is still Chris Evans. The throwaway line he says with completely straight face–"that’s actually hilarious"–slays me.

Unfortunately I think the supporting cast, especially Culkin and Wong, upstage the two leads at every turn. Winstead is the worst Manic Pixie Dream Girl I’ve ever seen (and that’s a lot). Even though she’s mercifully un-manic, instead she’s just lifeless. At least Deschanel’s un-manic Dream Girl in 500 Days still emanated the personal magnetism of a serial heartbreaker.

It probably sounds like I didn’t like the movie but I actually did – both times. However, after the second time I realised I probably won’t get it on disc. Like Inception, much of the fun was in seeing what comes next, and once the surprises were known some the novelty faded. But the fact that I went back to see it again (as with Inception) is necessarily a commendation.

This is such a great resource that you are providing and you give it away for free. I enjoy seeing websites that understand the value of providing a prime resource for free. I truly loved reading your post. Thanks!

“smarmy” - I love that you used this word.

(RoNeTiHu? NeTiHuRo? HuRoNeTi?) - I chortled at this. After my own heart. (I do NaNoWriMo every year, and created my own Concyclodictious)

For some reason, this one stayed off my radar, and I didn’t really care about seeing it. I had no idea about the video game element. So now it is an automatic “Must-see". Thanks. =)

I had a feeling that was the case, Doug. I definitely want to check out the books eventually. I wonder if I can find an audio copy at the library. I swear, I’m such a lazy reader now!

The books are a thousand million gazillion times better than the movie. They did the same thing with the movie as they did with “City of Ember": kept the dressings and ripped out the heart.

Very fun series. Read the whole thing myself, and now I’m reading it with my daughter (8 yrs old).

Hahah. I never noticed Kilmer’s scar tissue. I do need to re-watch Heat though, because I remember something crazy was up with his elbow in that movie. That’st he only thing I remember about Heat. I like that you and I are slowly becoming Marys in our own right. I love your Mary description of Michelle Monaghan.

The homoerotic subtext of the buddy cop genre doesn’t seem like it fits into this movie since this isn’t a buddy cop movie, but maybe that’s just me.

I saw this in the theater but don’t remember anything except for Val Kilmer’s distractingly chewed-up neck.

And not to out-Mary you, but Michelle Monaghan has always struck me as a poor woman’s Liv Tyler and I don’t like her nose which reminds me of Marcia Gay Harden.

I remember reviews of this movie praising it for finally bringing to the surface the homoerotic subtext of the buddy cop genre, but the tension between male friendship and homophobia was a major theme in one of earliest buddy cop comedies, Freebie and the Bean. Which makes KKBB about thirty years late to that party.

Still, I would enjoy revisiting KKBB now that my noir education is a lot better than it was five years ago. But this time I’ll try to ignore Kilmer’s scar tissue.

Couldn’t. Agree. More.

My wife and I both loved this series (although we skipped “The Prophet of Yonwood” since it was a prequel). And movie was just… bleh. Like you said, it missed the heart of the books and spent too much time on the set design.

If you liked “City of Ember", I’d definitely recommend reading “The People of Sparks” and then “The Diamond of Darkhold". It has the usual frustrations of juvenile fiction (why do the kids miss the signs? why are the adults so disconnected?), but it’s still a fun series.

Good point, Ryan. I thought the use of Harmony was particular, but didn’t notice the connection with Perry.

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Something I just noticed while reading your review: the names have to be intentional, right? You’ve got Perry, who is Harry’s foil ("parry"), you’ve got Harmony, who’s supposed to bring peace to Harry’s life, and then there’s Harry, who I guess has a “hairy” life? I dunno. Isn’t there a trope within the noire genre that uses names like this, like “Hammer"? Seems like something writer Shane Black would do in this movie.

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Hint taken. I didn’t like my review because it felt unfocused and sounded cranky but I’ll have another look at it and post it this week.

Thanks for the impetus!

I though it was an okay movie, but waaaay too predictable. Was it one of the better ones in the theater when it came out? No doubt. Still, I was left feeling it was too formulaic. Then again, I tend to avoid Denzel movies, so take it with a grain of salt.

Ok, I think I’ll bump it up on my “watch” list now. I was a bit dubious too. And now I feel like watching Fifth Element…and the Professional…and Air Force One… Fortunately I own all of those, so that’ll be easy. =)

Ah, the perils of writing a post with “tattoo” in the title!

Anyway, I think Played with Fire comes out at the end of August. I had no idea Fincher was remaking them all (how tedious) but Daniel Craig seems like an obvious choice for Blomkvist. His participation gives me a Golden Compass vibe but, as you say, hopefully Finch will do something more interesting with the material.

The photograph segment is definitely my favorite part of the movie. When you see the girl’s eyes turn toward her attacker with each progressing frame, it is haunting and very effective.

As for the title, it could have been Men Who Hate Women (I heard the same thing about the title) or could as easily be called Women Who Get Raped. Wow. Such dark material. I am very interested to see how David Fincher will handle it. I still feel that the material itself isn’t my problem so much as the taste level of how it is displayed, but I will have to wait for the American adaptation to find out if that’s true.

When does it come out there? I think I saw it about a month ago.